Free TheAngryDoveAndTheAssassin by Stephani Hecht

to be, but if you go in there all jacked up, you’re not going to be of any good to yourselves, let alone the pack.”
    Proof yet again that Chris was a good Alpha. Grey was once again glad that Shane had found them and convinced them to work for Chris’s pack. While at first Grey had done it for the pay, now he was staying out of respect and loyalty for the Wolf. He turned and could see the same admiration in Simon’s gaze. Even Toby seemed impressed and that said a lot.
    Chris raised his hand. “Okay, ready. Attack!”
    They all moved as one, some of them in their human form, others as Wolves. There were guards stationed outside, but the pack was so quick and vicious that they didn’t have time to call out much of a warning before they were taken down and ripped apart. They left the bodies behind them and forced their way inside the warehouse.
    More men were inside, and they were armed to the teeth, too. They fired off several shots. Grey dodged a bullet before he took one of an enemy down with a slice of his dagger. The man fell with a gurgling sound.
    Grey didn’t know if they were suffering any casualties on their side, but he knew the arms dealers were going down fast. The ones that weren’t being killed by weapons were being mauled to death by Wolves. Soon the only one left was the leader. They all stood back and let Chris take care of him. As the Alpha, it was his right.
    Chris walked up to the man. The arms dealer was small in stature and seemed to grow smaller the closer Chris got to him. For some reason, the dealer was unarmed, which was the biggest irony of all.
    “Your weapons killed a lot of my people,” Chris said in a deadly calm voice.
    “I swear I didn’t know what he was going to do with them,” the dealer whined.
    “The fact that you know who I’m here about tells me that you’re lying,” Chris growled back.
    He then shifted into his Wolf form. Grey let out a low whistle. Chris was one hell of a big Wolf. He sure wouldn’t want to tangle with him. The dealer let out a scream and covered his face, but it did little to protect him. Chris attacked, going for the man’s jugular. Within seconds, he was dead.
    Chris transformed back to human, wiping away the blood from his mouth and making a face as if the blood was the foulest tasting thing in the world. “Blow this place the fuck up. Let it send a warning to anybody else who may be thinking of doing business with Rand in the future.”
    “Will do, Alpha,” Toby said with a respectful nod of his head.
    He and Simon began to move around the room, setting up explosives in various areas. Grey rolled his eyes since he could almost smell the giddiness wafting off the pair of them. It was like Christmas had come early or something.
    Once they had the charges all in place, Toby turned to the group, “Okay, we have ten minutes to clear out of here before everything goes boom.”
    “Won’t the local PD and Fire be pissed at you?” Grey asked Chris.
    Chris grunted. “Let them be. It’ll teach them for not keeping a better watch on this area and letting this operation run right under their noses. They should be thanking us for shutting it down.”
    They all regrouped, grabbed their wounded, then got the hell out of there. They had gotten into their vehicles and hit the freeway when a loud explosion filled the air.
     
    * * * *
     
    Caley continued to pace the floor of the common room as he waited for Grey and the others to return from the mission. He was worried sick about the Wolf, and time seemed to crawl by at a snail’s pace. He put a hand to his stomach as he wondered how much longer it would be.
    “I don’t know how you guys do this all the time,” he said to Alger and the other mates who were gathered to wait with him.
    Alger gave a shrug. “I wish I could tell you that it gets easier, but it doesn’t.”
    “If anything, it gets harder,” Miles said.
    “Yeah, I still feel sick whenever Wright leaves,” Braxton added.
    “If this